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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Remember when Brendan Fraser made those Mummy movies and was raking in $20M+ a year? Well those times are long gone. The former A list mostly movie star who has now dropped to a B-/C+ wants to lower his child support and alimony payments. He says he can't afford the annual $900K payment he makes to his ex-wife which also supports their three children. According to The NY Post, Brendan was once worth $45M. That is a ton of money to blow. With no Mummy movies in sight and not being all that great of an actor Brendan wants to conserve what he has left for as long as he can. Considering that his youngest child is 6, he has a lot of paying still to do. Brendan's ex says he is hiding money which he probably is, but he also has "medical issues". Yeah, and those medical issues are very expensive. I wonder if they have something to do with the fact that he can't get work.

He may have lost money in the last stock market crash. Many people's incomes are seriously down. Hopefully it's just temporary. Hopefully he can get the child support adjusted to something he can afford. Better that than to get so far behind that he stops paying altogether.

If the wife were smart (which all signs point to "no") she should have had the money up front in a trust that she and her advisors control. Never rely on a baby daddy for the long haul- the the $$ upfront.

Anyway, it is the same w/ pro athletes. The support is based on your current income, and doesn't take into account that your career has a shelf life.

I heard one story of an exec after the crash. Savings wiped out, firm shuttered, and he had to pay $6k/month in support. Took 6 months from filing for reduction in support until he got a hearing, but he was locked up before then for non payment. PLUS, he was still on the hook for the 6k/month while waiting for the hearing, the reduction was only from that day forward.

I used to work for an accountant that handled high end divorces, mostly forensic accounting (finding money) for a hot minute he had the ex wife (before Ellen Barking) of Ron Pearlman. He said her skin was so translucent and luminous it was like she had daily seaweed facials.

You have no idea the lengths rich men will go to hide money from their wives. Not so much to screw the kids over, but to screw the wives over and so many cases were about mommy support not child care. The kids were used as bartering chips.

He was supposed to be the lead of a new TNT show and dropped out due to "creative differences." I really thought that this guy would always have a steady hot career. This story makes me sad. I hope he gets his life back together.

I also thought he was so hot in the Mummy movies. He had such a hot bod and a sexy voice and a touch of nerdiness. He was awesome. I also saw an interview of him where he was playing with old-timey cameras and he came off as being goofy and charming. Was he really a coke user? Ah...my fantasy is shattered!

Timebob mentioned Ronald Perlman and that reminded me--all gossip and/or penny marshall fans should read her autobiography. It is free for kindle users right now and was great. Lots of gossip and RP comes off as a sweetheart for everything he did for penny over the years. Very surprising stuff.

Susan his medical issue appears to be his food addiction and exercise phobia.

It's funny because someone was talking about him last week and I looked up his IMDB page and it listed how much he was paid for various movies. One of the paydays was for $12 million. So the ex was awarded 7.5% of his earnings.

Btw, that part of his IMDB had been deleted when I checked again yesterday.

Wow he has dropped a long way. He was my celeb crush for a couple of years. He was so good looking.. I loved him and Ricki Lake in Mrs. Winterbourne and he got very critical acclaim for Gods and Monsters with Ian McClellan in 1998. He was totally with the hot bod for George of the Jungle. I believe that's where he met his now ex, Afton Smith, she had a bit part in that. From what I had seen he was also a talented hobbyist photographer as well. He seemed like a smart guy but I guess not so much. If he really wanted to work, he'd get in better shape and lose the weight like those in Entertainment have to do. This kind of makes me feel old and sad that my one time hottie crush looks like he can barely fit between those cars. Good thing they aren't two SUV's or his belly would definitely get stuck.

Actually Lulu, Afton got the bit part in the movie because they were already together. I hated her so much once I learned that! And now I just feel sorry for her, another blond in Hwood with a drug-bloated tool for an ex....

@CeeKay, thanks for the correction. After I posted I was reading up and read that. Instead they met at a bbq at Winona Rider's house. TMI, I know. The part she had in GotJ was tiny. I agree , I used to hate her too but now, she's going to be a sad lady if she doesnt get her $900k/annually!

I remember thinking he was just an idiot doofus (Geo of the Jungle, the caveman movie) until I saw him in Mrs Winterbourne and OMG he cleaned up nicely! Good chemistry with Rachel Weisz in the Mummy movies, too. NOT liking this pic. :(

The 900k is not entirely unrealistic. When wealthy people divorce (or work out child support payments), a lot of it can depend on how much the higher-earning spouse/partner makes, the standard of living that they're used to, etc. If he was pulling $20m a year w/a $45m net worth, the settlement would assume he would continue that way and base it on his income and assets. Also, he would have had to agree to that settlement or take it to mediation to lower it.

He's always been cute in an aw shucks, I'm not cute kinda way. But 900K a year? In what world was he ever going to maintain mummy paychecks? He can read and recite his lines well enough, he's definitely made for action flicks, but 900k? That's a stretch. Good for him for hiding money, I would too.

Hell to the no on Furry Vengeance. That made me sad. I remember seeing Brooke Shields in church in NJ in the mid 80's. She was absolutely stunning. The fact that Furry Vengeance was made, and that it starred the two of them was just awful.

I'm pretty sure everyone knows what a kid will cost them when they breed. 3 kids? Somebody worked the math on that. And we all know how to make babies from a pretty early age. No pity for him at all. Hated the Mummy movies, they're probably for kids anyways so whatever. I feel bad for the kids in the middle of this mess.

Jeeeesus! Most of us in first world countries need to start respecting money and not flushing it away like it grows on trees. And I mean that from the bottom (ie. me, when I spend $4 on a coffee) on up the food chain to the multi-millionaires who just buy bigger mansions. What is WRONG with us when there are so many with nothing, who would cry with joy to see a 10 dollar bill?!It's kinda disgraceful to lose that much moola, IMO.

Spousal abuse? I just searched on that and couldn't find anything about any allegations regarding Brendan. I did find that he has some litigation pending related to some movie on his IMDB future projects "William Tell". First production was delayed and so BF sued them because his contract stipulated he get paid whether the film was made or not. Then he has got into two physical brawls with the movie's producer who is now suing him back...

I had the biggest crush on him from George of the Jungle up until he made that Looney Tunes movie. Then again, I also had a huge crush on Joe from Wishbone on PBS and Aladdin soooooo maybe my taste in men isn't so great.

I read some pretty scathing remarks on his imdb page a few years ago supposedly from his ex-wife or maybe one of her friends re: him sleeping with men for roles. Michael Caine and Ian McKellan were two named. Can't remember all of it and I think it may have been removed. Whoever was making the accusations seemed to have a lot of scoop and an axe to grind. It certainly sounded like his jilted ex.

I read some pretty scathing remarks on his imdb page a few years ago supposedly from his ex-wife or maybe one of her friends re: him sleeping with men for roles. Michael Caine and Ian McKellan were two named. Can't remember all of it and I think it may have been removed. Whoever was making the accusations seemed to have a lot of scoop and an axe to grind. It certainly sounded like his jilted ex.

I loved him in School Ties. My 90s crush Chris O'Donnell was in that. so were Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Amy Locane. I also loved him in With Honors. "I'm ending our friendship." Anyone remember that? Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.

Maybe it's just me, but $900,000 in child support and ex-wife payments does not seem excessive in a Hollywood marriage. Considering what he earned and what their life style must have been like I don't find that over the top. Of course if he has no money any payment will be difficult.

I had read several years ago somewhere (sorry, I cannot remember the source) that Brendan Fraser had pretty serious mental health issues, primarily severe bouts of depression. I have assumed since then that IF this is true, it explained why his career tanked. If true, it would also explain the "medical issues".

He was really good in Twilight of the Golds. He played the gay son, and his sister was pregnant with a baby that was going to be gay (her husband was a geneticsist), and they were casually tossing around ideas of abortion because of it, and he was very understandably upset. It was a good movie and he was good in it.

The video/GIF of him clapping at the Golden Globes still cracks me up every time. Of course, he admitted that he had a pretty good buzz on at the time, and if he DOES have substance abuse issues, I feel kinda bad for laughing.

I knew him for a brief time when he was in acting school in Seattle. He dated a friend of mine for about a year. I have not been in touch with him since then, but I will say he was an incredibly nice person and I never saw him drink or use drugs. It makes me sad that people are calling him a heroin-addicted, wife beater when they don't know anything about him. A lot of time has passed and I don't know him now, but I'd like to think he is still the good person I knew then.

His looks did go down hill way before their time which could be explained by medical reasons and lack of work due to lack of insurers (ala Lindsey) although I have no idea if he has those problems, if so he's good at staying out of the media.

THAT would give Lindsey a FATAL illness, lack of paps are lack of life to her.

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